…12/14-09: as we look at life

34º in ABQ; 72% humidity at 6A…GAQ; overnight rain at The Beach; Rio Rancho officer involved shooting; link students’ good grades to getting driver’s permits; records from the past: Nikita the K, and Dr. Demento; NM GOV tells people to spend locally; create a new W Side School District?; after school project: students working as apprentices; father who abducted his three children in NM, now is in a Key West, FL jail; prank evacuates BLDG on Candelaria; this time, a semi rolled over near Belen; Spaceport flights by 2011?;

new, APT style residence proposed for the UNM S Campus; Richard was surrounded by coyotes on the bike path; he also enjoys disaster movies; Milton Baca was on KOAT yesterday; possible chicken pox outbreak in NICU; helping others work their TES edits; ‘file server down’ during AM; why ask me if you want me to go?;

parts of the PA TRPK & I-79 shut down due to icy conditions & massive collisions; dense fog from MD to TX to FL; showers in JAX, ATL , Houston & Mobile, and along parts of I-10; snow in Chicago & the Twin Cities; fifty car pileup in CT, caused by sleet & hail; Seattle showers; temps from 0s to 80s;

Lebanese leader will talk to Obama today; obsolete items: the roller deck, bank deposit slips, TV set with antenna, the floppy disk & the answering machine; CO deer’s antlers entangled in holiday lights, but causing no harm to the animal; Obama meeting with the mega-banks’ CEOs; many economists still say this is a ‘jobless recovery’; cutting ties with Tiger Woods, no longer considered ‘the right person’; Mt. Hood hikers should have carried a $5 location beacon; $1.1 trillion spending bill goes to the Oval Office; the first flight of the 787; citizens starting their own legal marijuana farms; 34 students brought to a local hospitals after they are overcome by fumes at school; PRES gives himself a ‘good, solid B+’; Citigroup will pay off some of its debt; has Legionnaire’s disease infected a Miami hotel?; adultery is still illegal in NH?; Lieberman vs. health care reform; weird: MA murder suspect cut off his fingertips so he would not be arrested; thousands of Cleveland, OH residents are forced to leave their homes after a gas leak from an oil recycling company is reported; more are spending less on holiday gifts; 22 million E-mails by the second PRES Bush have been uncovered; Houston is the fourth largest city in America; the ‘fat cats don’t get it: banks have to stop changing the rules, and start loaning money to help the country recover’; counterfeit goods confiscated, no longer coming to a street corner near you; more children being killed by TV sets falling on them; without Tiger, the PGA loses millions of dollars; female SEN does not want to be called “ma’am”; NJ UPS man found $5,200 on the road, and brought it to a bank; the DOW ended up; people making money in CO by legally growing medical marijuana; WI woman glued man’s penis to his stomach?; Tom Brady became a father last week, but he still played yesterday; another car swallowed by a sinkhole; Wells Fargo repaying its loan?;AFG soldiers are poorly paid; world’s mayors attacks climate change; NASA launched new space telescope; is British Airways going on strike?; ‘secret document’ showing Iran building nuclear weapons; gold is now $1,124.40 an ounce; oil is $69.73 per barrel; Abu Dhabi brings aid to Dubai; Al Gore says the polar ice caps may be gone within a decade; the glaciers are gone in Bolivia, and are fading away in Kenya, China, India & Nepal; the three US hikers who were arrested while in Iran will be tried as spies; people support the man who attacked the Italian PM; US oil companies were outbid for Iraqi petroleum;